{"id":119431,"date":"2023-10-19T17:59:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=119431"},"modified":"2023-10-19T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:59:17","slug":"inside-1-6-billion-hotel-which-has-never-had-a-single-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/travel\/inside-1-6-billion-hotel-which-has-never-had-a-single-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside \u00a31.6 billion hotel which has NEVER had a single guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Inside \u00a31.6 billion &#8216;tower of doom&#8217; hotel which has NEVER had a single guest<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Located in Pyongyang, Ryugyong Hotel was meant to open over 25 years ago<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This hotel has never had a single guest, despite costing a whopping \u00a31.6billion to build.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Located in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang,\u00a0Ryugyong Hotel was meant to welcome its first guests over 25 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hotel has been compared to &#8216;Mordor&#8217; due to its pyramid-shaped structure and its standing in one of the most impoverished countries in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Construction on the hotel initially began in 1987 and &#8211; had it been completed on schedule two years later &#8211; it would have opened as the world&#8217;s tallest hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/19\/12\/76748865-12648907-image-a-68_1697714211814.jpg\" height=\"823\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Ryungyong Hotel in North Korea is the world&#8217;s tallest unoccupied building with 105 empty storeys<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/19\/12\/49515075-12648907-To_finally_finish_the_Ryugyong_Hotel_it_would_reportedly_cost_2b-a-24_1697713846587.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The hotel has been compared to &#8216;Mordor&#8217; due to its pyramid-shaped structure and its standing in one of the most impoverished countries in the world.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0The world&#8217;s WORST white elephants: From the \u00a34bn &#8216;People&#8217;s House&#8217; in Bucharest that displaced 40,000 locals to build to the 1,082ft &#8216;Mordor&#8217; hotel in North Korea (not forgetting the \u00a36m Marble Arch mound)<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/19\/12\/49515855-12648907-Its_twin_towers_which_are_connected_by_a_diamond_shaped_penthous-a-22_1697713800809.jpg\" height=\"172\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<p>Now, it has the rather more unwanted record of being the tallest unoccupied building in the world instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3,000 rooms were planned to have been built in the hotel, which would have seen them spread across the three-winged building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, work was paused on the hotel in 1992 as North Korea endured an economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet Union that year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a 16 year pause an Egyptian contractor, the Orascom group,\u00a0took over the project and revived construction in 2008, according to Reuters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the extended hiatus on developing the hotel any further,\u00a0exterior glass panels were then installed in July 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This development led to reassurances from North Korean officials that the hotel would finally open in 2012 &#8211; which was pushed back to 2013 after another delay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this period,\u00a0German luxury hotel group Kempinski was set to oversee management of the site, but withdrew mere months after taking it on, stating that it was &#8216;not currently possible&#8217; to be in the North Korean market at the time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, any hopes that the hotel would eventually open in some capacity failed to materialise, with the hotel believed to be completely empty inside to this day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/article-12648907\/inside-one-six-billion-pound-tower-doom-hotel-zero-guests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside \u00a31.6 billion &#8216;tower of doom&#8217; hotel which has NEVER had a single guest Located in Pyongyang, Ryugyong Hotel was meant to open over 25 years ago This hotel has never had a single guest, despite costing a whopping \u00a31.6billion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Inside \u00a31.6 billion hotel which has NEVER had a single guest - blogcamlodipine.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/travel\/inside-1-6-billion-hotel-which-has-never-had-a-single-guest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inside \u00a31.6 billion hotel which has NEVER had a single guest - blogcamlodipine.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Inside \u00a31.6 billion &#8216;tower of doom&#8217; 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